  Title: Canada and the States Author: Edward William Watkin Edition: 10 Language: English Produced by Michelle Shephard, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. CANADA AND THE STATES RECOLLECTIONS 1851 to 1886. BY SIR E. W. WATKIN, BART., M.P."If the Maritime Provinces [of Britain] would join us, spontaneously, to-day—sterile as they may be in the soil under a sky of steel—still with their hardy population, their harbours, fisheries, and seamen, they would greatly strengthen and improve our position, and aid us in our struggle for equality upon the ocean. If we would succeed upon the deep, we must either maintain our fisheries or ABSORB THE PROVINCES." E. H. DERBY, Esq, Report to the Revenue Commissioners of the United [Illustration: The Duke of Newcastle, K.G.] In the absence of any formal Dedication, I feel that to no one could the following pages be more appropriately inscribed than to Lady Watkin. On her have fallen the anxieties of our home life during my many long absences away on the American Continent—which Continent she once, in 1862, visited with me. My business, in relation to Canada, has, from time to time, been undertaken with her knowledge, and under her good advice; and no one has been animated with a stronger hope for Canada, as a great integral part of the Empire of the Queen, than herself. E. W. WATKIN. ROSE HILL, NORTHENDEN, 2nd May, 1887. |
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